Moving from Sky - advice needed on timing

Hi
My cabinet is due to be enabled for fibre by the end of March and I want to move my telephone to BT as well as get Infinity.
I currently get my phone and broadband with Sky, who have been fine, but I want to get BT Sport at the same time and save myself the subscription cost by moving to BT for telephone and Infinity.
My query is if it's worth arranging to move my telephone now, rather than waiting for Infinity to be enabled on my cabinet so as to keep lead time for installation to a minimum.
Does anyone know if there are different lead times for moving telephone and broadband?
I don't want to wait until my cabinet is enabled to make the order then lose several weeks as the telephone lead time is longer than the Infinity one if it can be avoided.
All advice gratefully received!
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You can move your phone and broadband to BT whenever you like. You will be put on normal ADSL first of all, then you can upgrade to Infinity whenever its available.
That is the best way forward, as it makes the upgrade to Infinity much easier.
Remember to ask Sky for a MAC code, as you will need that when you place the BT order.
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/packages/?s_cid=con_FURL_packages
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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